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lunch hooks

lunch hooks is the plural of lunch hook.

Meaning of lunch hook

Noun

lunch hook (plural lunch hooks)

  1. (slang) A person's hand.
    • It was a question of move, and move damn quick. He'd got a flare pistol in his lunch hook when I fell on him, and your little crowd would have looked pretty if he'd let it off.1918, Herman Cyril McNeile, The Human Touch

Questions about lunch hooks

What is lunch hooks the plural of?
Lunch hooks is the plural of lunch hook.

Words near lunch hooks in the dictionary

  1. lunch bucket
  2. lunch buckets
  3. lunch counter
  4. lunch counters
  5. lunch hook
  6. lunch hooks
  7. lunch hour
  8. lunch hours
  9. lunch in
  10. lunch kettle
  11. lunch kettles

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